SPLASHCOS, SUBLAND, MODEG
• Main data provided by Hauke Jöns, SPLASHCOS, COST Action TD0902
• Added notes by Nic Flemming, SUBLAND, European Marine Board
MODEG, 22 Sept 2013
Discover the submerged prehistoric sites of Europe the Splashcos viewer
still work in progress
1 EMODNet
Hydrography Bathymetry
Sea bed Geology Archaeology
Country Correspondant Belgium Marnix Pieters Bulgaria Helena Angelova Big Challenge: Croatia Irena Radic Rossi Denmark Anders Fischer Data needed from all countries Estonia Aivar Kriiska France Cyrille Billard Germany Hauke Jöns Greece Katerina Dellaporta Ireland Kieran Westley Israel Ehud Galili Italy Elena Flavia Latvia Valdis Berzin Lithuania Algirdas Girininkas Malta Tim Gambin Netherlands Andrea Otte Norway Hakon Glørstad Poland Prezemyslaw Krajewski Portugal Nuno Bicho Romania Valentina Voinea Spain Pablo Arias Sweden Björn Nilsson Turkey Hakan Oniz UK Garry Momber Splashcos-Network Ukraine Valentina Yanko-Hombach in operation!
2 Splashcos-viewer: Structure of information
Single find (unstratified) Collection of finds (unstratified) Settlement (in situ culture layer, features) Grave/graves Depotfind/Offering Rock Art/Carvings Others
Splashcos-viewer: Structure of information
Stone Palaeolithic Upper Palaeolithic Age Middle Palaeolithic Late Palaeolithic Late Paleolithic/Early Mesolithic Mesolithic Early Mesolithic Middle Mesolithic Late Mesolithic Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Neolithic Early Neolithic Middle Neolithic Late Neolithic Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Bronze Age
3 Splashcos-viewer: Structure of information
4 Splashcos-viewer: Structure of information
State of the art (October 2013): 2461 sites from 16 countries Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK
no Splashcos-sites in their waters so far: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Spain, Romania
Still busy in preparing the datasets: Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Netherlands.
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5 Visualisation Splashcos-Viewer and Access service
x Splashcos
Visualisation Splashcos-Viewer and Access service
x Splashcos
Info
Germany Bergen 24 Settlement Late Mesolithic Radiocarbon dated Organic material
6 Research tool: thematic maps
Dating of sites in the western Baltic and North Sea waters .
Thanks a lot to the Thanks for implementing the Splashcos Viewer Correspondants into the GeoSeas System to: Marnix Pieters Helena Angelova Irena Radic Rossi Sytze van Heteren & Dick Schaap Anders Fischer Aivar Kriiska Cyrille Billard Hauke Jöns Thanks for technical support to Katerina Dellaporta Kieran Westley Ehud Galili Moritz Mennenga & Ingo Eichfeld Elena Flavia Valdis Berzin Algirdas Girininkas Tim Gambin Andrea Otte Hakon Glørstad Prezemyslaw Krajewski Nuno Bicho Valentina Voinea Pablo Arias thank you for listening Björn Nilsson Hakan Oniz Garry Momber Olena Smyntyna
7 EMB, SUBLAND Objective
POSITION PAPER to: Describe present status, and recommend a strategic research framework for short-term and long-term study of European continental shelf prehistoric deposits, relating them to seabed mapping, high-resolution local Pleistocene climatic and environmental conditions, and facilitating preservation of the Cultural Heritage. Report Oct. 2014.
Woolly Mammoth skull, Stellendam, 2006, courtesy Dick Mol
8 Why SUBLAND now?
• The community of scholars studying seabed prehistoric sites has been growing slowly, but increasing exponentially, for about 50 years. • Number of projects and publications per year is increasing exponentially. • SPLASHCOS/Deukalion has created links between over 150 researchers from more than 30 specialist academic disciplines. Total grants over 4 years was 22 million euros. • This European network now needs a more permanent and institutional basis, with broad research objectives, linked to training courses, and strong links between marine geoscience agencies and national heritage agencies and universities.
9 1st Meeting: Decisions, Actions, Done
• Accept the draft topics of the chapters of the Position Paper; Authors agreed. • Prepare Questionnaire to EAC Members. • Design display boxes for key items, law, data distribution, sea level curves, etc. • Establish links with EMODNET, archival data holders, INQUA, IGCP, etc. • Develop links with offshore industries, and sports diving associations, and European Scientific Diving Panel.
Thank you for listening.
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